Example sentences of "and i [vb past] in " in BNC.

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1 There was a long silence as Dodson and I looked in surprise at the farmer who continued to gaze fixedly at the cow .
2 I first saw her when I was called to see one of Mrs Ainsworth 's dogs , and I looked in some surprise at the furry black creature sitting before the fire .
3 show them the garden , by Saturday night I felt shattered for it and I 'd come home and I looked in the cupboard and I said Ton well what do you want for your dinner then ?
4 When I was small , Uncle Fred was my hero and I listened in awe as he told Dad of some of his experiences as a Marine .
5 And , miraculously , there was little resistance and I stared in disbelief as the great organ disappeared gloriously and wonderfully from sight I was right behind it with my arm , probing frantically away up to the shoulder as I rotated my wrist again and again till both uterine cornua were fully involuted Ben I was certain beyond doubt that everything was back in place I lay there for a few moments , my arm still deep inside the sow , my forehead resting on the floor .
6 Helen and I got in front .
7 The Sheikha and I got in the back while the Sheikh took the wheel .
8 So she said , and then we got undressed she said , and I got in bed in my er my vest and knickers and th and the lady said where 's your pyjamas ?
9 Well that , that 's why I think I went down so hard when I did n't get that job cos she said , I , I took , I took the erm , I went , I was the first , to go , first of all I did n't put in for this job it 's one that 's been laying around since last September , I wrote to , kept to St. Mary 's for this mental health thing and I got in touch with this Mrs and she said I 've got nothing I can offer you at the moment but I , I will be in touch and I went down the job centre one day and erm , there was this thing to say that they wanted mental nurses
10 And I did use it once and I got in such a temper !
11 Melissa unfolded it and strapped the twins in when we reached the village and I parked in the pub car park , as instructed by Carol .
12 The anger among Asian teenagers which Geeta and I noticed in 1974 has of course since then led to Asian boys hitting back .
13 I could n't get to sleep , and I noticed in the air there was a red light flashing , and several other green lights flashing , and they were coming , helicopter noises , and er I watched them for several minutes and they seemed to be landing and one was stationary in the air , without moving , and rest were going up and down .
14 So I said to her while she was upstairs I got a pen I know it was a black one and I wrote in blue and put another N .
15 Put down my pen and I heard in my ears the howl of the fleeing dog , saw the metal flash of Sophie 's shoe — I could not bear it .
16 I spent a year living in Italy and I fell in love with the rustic feel and lifestyle .
17 One of them was an architect who , even at the age of sixty , was very handsome and likeable , and I fell in love with him .
18 You look just like your mum , and I fell in love with her , did n't I ?
19 She was very beautiful and I fell in love with her .
20 I was about twelve years old , and I fell in love with the place instantly .
21 As Richard and I chronicled in our ‘ book of the ads ’ You Got an Ology ? ’ in the first two-week shoot we made ten commercials .
22 He offered me a fat life as his whore , and I laughed in his face .
23 Well I by good luck have had some copies of the petition sent down to me , so I started it , it immediately and I had in the first they made over one thousand one hundred and twenty five signatures .
24 I was friendly with one of the local farmers , and I had in mind on one of our " stand-downs " to run a small flock of sheep through the Lion , I would , of course he dressed in ancient drover gear and had no doubt that it would cause something of a riot at the Lion .
25 I would also like to erm ask that erm that we do have everything we can to ensure that where this council has the possibility as erm landowner or property owner or whatever that we prevent or certainly discourage the use of such property for car boot sales and I had in mind sales that are taking place based on erm education property and in the case of Hatfield we were able to persuade the relevant authorities to er cause the car boot sale to cease but that particular car boot sale was causing great damage to the legitimate traders in both the Hatfield market and the Hatfield town centre .
26 wardens and whatever , we do n't take the double yellow lines half seriously enough , erm and I think parking generally is , is something we 're very bad at and I 'm an occasional sinner in this respect too , but it , it did strike me the other day , erm paying a fifteen pound fine for parking on a single yellow line on a Sunday afternoon but I had n't noticed a sign that said I should n't , erm paying that fifteen pound fine in other words not having paid the six pound instant fine , I remember thinking that , really there 's , there was no way of talking back , and I had in fact attempted an explanation as to why I 'd done it , and explained the reasons why I thought this really was very overlookable on the side of the law , erm I do n't suppose they paid much attention to it , I do n't imagine giving it a moment 's thought at all .
27 Then a formation of Fif 's mandroids shouldered thought the throng , and I followed in their wake .
28 Liz and I followed in the support vehicle , a splendid Vauxhall Frontera turbo diesel which was kindly lent by our friends at Vauxhall Motors who have also adopted CRMF as their Charity of the Year .
29 So I was close by and so they sent me in so the way I , I got dressed up in the minister 's cassock , and I got in revised the books of Genesis , like through and I get genned up to be a minister and I took in a bible and er well anyway I killed five men and they got out alive .
30 His face was hard , his neck rigid , his eyes narrow ; and I thought in a flash of Paul Shacklebury , the lad dead in his ditch .
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